48 On Planting Corn. 
ing one, and some three stalks in a hill. After the first 
hocing, a small handful of unleached ashes was put 
round each hill through the field. In those portions of 
the field where the corn was planted thick, I directed 
the suckers when about eight or ten inches long, to be 
plucked off, so as to leave no part of the shoot on the ~ 
original stalk ; then the dirt was drawn about to prevent 
bleeding. The corn was suckered three times. When 
the shoots began to appear above the second joint they 
were left for bearing. The third of the field planted in 
the usual mode was left to nature, and was not suckered. 
The two feet corn was cultivated by hand hoeing. In 
the other parts, the harrow or the plough was used 
twice; the two last hoeings were plain. The rankness 
and tenderness of the stalks would not admit of the 
plough. The eighteen inch and common way planting 
were well hilled : the two feet corn would not allow hill- 
ing, but ina slight manner. The corn planted in the 
usual mode suffered much more by falling to the 
eround than either of the other lands; owing, I sup- 
pose, to the feebleness of the secondary stalks or suck- 
ers: the two feet corn stood the most firm and erect. 
On the night succeeding the 31st of August, my 
field was so situated as to receive manifest injury from 
the frost. At harvest I was careful to make an exact 
measurement of the corn upon each portion of the field, 
by a half bushel, then examined by the town standard. 
The field I measured by the surveyor’s chain ; it con- 
tained one hundred and eighty rods of ground. The 
produce on each part was as follows, viz. 
60 rods planted square, two feet distance, yielded 39 
bushels and 11 quarts, which is 105 bushels to the acre. 
